Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
- Participants Needed for a Paid Research Study: Up to $100
- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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The Distinction Between Slavery and Race in U.S. History African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) 2016-11-27 Patrick Rael, Professor of History Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine The history of the Electoral College is receiving a lot of attention. Pieces like this one, which explores “the electoral college and its racist roots,” remind us how deeply race…
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A United Kingdom: Love In The Time Of The British Empire Media Diversified 2016-11-28 Shane Thomas Once the year in film began with #OscarsSoWhite, was it coincidence that 2016 is closing – and 2017 beginning – with a raft of movies featuring people of colour? We have Hidden Figures, Lion, Fences, and the magnificent Moonlight to…
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Our love is colour blind but we face prejudice – Northern Ireland mixed race couples tell of their experiences The Belfast Telegraph 2016-11-28 Kerry McKittrick With film A United Kingdom at cinemas now, a true story documenting the political fall-out from an inter-racial relationship in Britain and South Africa of the 1940s, Kerry McKittrick talks…
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When Carina Ray was an undergraduate at University of California at Santa Cruz in 1993, she was drawn to study abroad in Ghana because she wanted to connect with her Puerto Rican family’s African roots. The trip ended up being the beginning of a career dedicated to the study of what blackness means in West…
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Meet Shereen Marisol Meraji, A Latina Journalist Tackling Race & Idendity Through Podcasting Latina 2016-11-23 Raquel Reichard, Politics & Culture Editor Hugo Rojo With Donald Trump, a candidate who ran on racism, xenophobia, sexism, Islamophobia and a disdain for journalists, heading to the White House, reports by and about the communities most impacted by the…
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Faculty Spotlight: Onnie Rogers Northwestern University Institute For Policy Research November 2016 IPR developmental psychologist Onnie Rogers examines how stereotypes affect youth identity. IPR developmental psychologist examines how children form their identities As an undergraduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, and as the only African-American gymnast on her college team, IPR developmental…
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This research explores how White women perceive their roles as parents to “mixed” race or biracial Black children. This qualitative project analyzes data from in person interviews, photographs and comments posted on Internet blogs, Facebook fan pages of mixed race children. Core elements of grounded theory are used as methodology to explore how White women…
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ASTD 693 – Racial Crossings Saint Louis University St. Louis, Missouri Fall 2014 Heidi Ardizzone, Associate Professor of American Studies This course examines race in American history and culture primarily through the lens of racial ambiguities, intersections, and intimacies. With attention to major theoretical frameworks for interpreting racial identity and structures, we examine historical and…